Xairos is a space-based quantum technology company that is building a resilient global timing service. By using quantum clock synchronization, Xairos is disrupting Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT). Now, more than ever, there is a need for a timing system that is faster, more accurate, and that cannot be jammed or spoofed. Xairos is leveraging advancements in Quantum Communications and our patented Quantum Clock Synchronization Technology (QCS) for the Second Quantum Revolution. The time is now. 

  

Xairos is named after Kairos, the Greek word for “opportune time.”  The X in Xairos is an homage to the Greek letter chi from nonlinear quantum optics, and so Xairos is pronounced with a ‘k.’ The graphics represent quantum communications by depicting entangled photons embedded in the logo. The concept of kairos has several deeper meanings – not only does it refer to precise timing, but the “right time for action or the critical moment,” unlike “chronos,” which is chronological time. 

  

Using fifty-year-old technology, GPS is currently a single point of failure for both location and time, for networks, global telecommunications, transportation, logistics, military and government, goods, and services and the list goes on. GPS touches every second of our modern technology-driven world. GPS is highly vulnerable to jamming (blocked signal) and spoofing (moving the signal), with hundreds of thousands of local outages reported yearly, and increasing. If GPS failed for a sustained period, estimations of economic losses are $1 billion per day in the U.S. and the U.K. The critical moment for secure precise time has come.   

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